New in the Artifacts Collection

Prayer shawl that belonged to David Zuzl, murdered on Yom Kippur 1939

Warsaw ghetto escapee Esther Bromberg's powder compact and hairbrush

Hanoar Hatzioni Zionist youth movement shirt worn by Pesakh Gerges in the Purten DP camp after the war

Calendar printed in Shanghai for the Jewish refugees from Europe

Calendar that Hilde Grünbaum received in Auschwitz-Birkenau in which she wrote quotations from Jewish sources

Hand-carved car that Armand Dankner made for his mother's birthday in Transnistria

Prayer book that Moshe Malc used when he and his family were hidden for twenty months above Franciszka Halamajowa’s pigsty in Poland

Mandolin that Leon Rosen took with him when he escaped to the forests and was imprisoned in Soviet labor camps

Tablecloth embroidered with the names of members of the "Bruriya" youth movement in Krakow, Poland

Family memento from before the war: a locket with photos of Leo and Chava Fürst

Fabric envelope for letters that Klara Fried made for her husband before she was deported to Auschwitz 

Dress that belonged to Sidika, a girl who was murdered  in Transnistria

Dress worn by Dina Kasten while in hiding in a forest in Ukraine

Tool for rolling cigarettes that helped Jacob Strich survive the war

Torah binder embroidered on the occasion of the circumcision of Walter Marcel [Moshe] Joseph who was murdered at Auschwitz

Chana Broer's jigsaw puzzle used by Jews hiding in her family's attic

Tablecloth embroidered by an unidentified woman in the Gurs transit camp

A decoration which was presented to Ernest Stegel for his work in the Czechoslovakian Underground during the World War II

Blanket that wrapped young Aviva Brachfeld when she was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto

A gramophone that Seren Weiss and her baby daughter received from a German officer who helped them to survive

Woolen shawl that kept baby Miriam warm when her family hid in the woods

"In the forests without this I couldn't find my way" – Artifacts that belonged to the Partisan Shlomo Brandt

Flowers of Eretz Israel (Flowers of the Holy Land)

A German children's book that Herta Rosenberg took for her baby daughter when they left Germany following the Kristallnacht pogrom

A walking-stick that belonged to Nathan Hausner from Czechoslovakia who was deported with his wife to the Lodz Ghetto where they were murdered

The Prisoner of War identity tag of Yitzhak Sternheim - A Soldier of the Jewish Brigade who was taken prisoner by the Germans

Wool Blanket used by Etti Singer in Westerbork Transit Camp